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Heavy D & The Boyz is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of C.L. Smooth, Teddy Riley, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson and B.B. King. Those roots explain a lot about how Heavy D & The Boyz arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kid 'N Play, Mantronix, Al B. Sure!, Naughty By Nature and Chubb Rock, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into MC Hammer, Soul for Real, Monifah, Rap God and Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Heavy D & The Boyz, reaching back through C.L. Smooth and forward to MC Hammer. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Dwight Arrington Myers, known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-American rapper, record producer, and actor. He was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz and "Trouble" T. Roy, as well as DJ and producer Eddie F. The group maintained a sizeable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released included production mainly by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Myers's cousin Pete Rock, and "in-house" beatmaker Eddie F. Myers also released four solo albums and discovered Soul for Real and Monifah.
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Heavy D & The Boyz connections
Heavy D & The Boyz grew out of C.L. Smooth, Teddy Riley, Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson, shares an orbit with Kid 'N Play, Mantronix, Al B. Sure! and Naughty By Nature, went on to shape MC Hammer, Soul for Real, Monifah and Rap God. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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